KARNAL: Doctor A.K. Goyal, has lodged a complaint with the police alleging that he was subjected to third degree torture in police custody recently.

According to Dr. Goyal, who is an MD in Radiology, a man jumped over the boundary wall of his residence and told him that patient from Missing needed an emergency ultrasound examination. As the doctor came out of his house, the man who was accompanied by half a dozen men, pounced on him and dragged him out of his house. His clothes were torn and he was thrown into a police jeep while another policeman pointed a gun at his wife and other neighbors to stop them from coming to his rescue. Dr. Goyal was taken to the police station without informing his wife as to where he was being taken. At the police station, the doctor was stripped and made to lie on the floor.

He was beaten mercifully and tortured repeatedly. According to Dr. Goyal, it was after the police finished beating him up, that they said that complaint against him was lodged by some Mrs. Sunita Diwan, a wife of Mr. Ashvini Diwan, are silent of Model Town, Mrs. Diwan had alleged that Dr. Goyal had molested her, when she had gone to his clinic for an ultrasound examination. Dr. Goyal nuns an ultrasound clinic in the Urban Estate here and is migrant from Punjab. Accusing the police of deliberately causing a delay in producing him in the court, the next day, Dr. Goyal said, that it was only after great persuasion that the police produced him in the court, only after parading him through the Bazaars and the streets. This too, he says was done at the instance of the complainant.

The doctor said that the case was fabricated at the behest of another doctor with whom he was a professional rivalry. He has asked the police chief to investigate the case thoroughly and has demanded action against the highhandedness of the police officials involved.

When contacted the Superintendent of Police, P.K. Aggarwal, said that a case has been registered against the doctor and that he would conduct the enquiry against the alleged highhandedness of the police. He denied that the police over reacted.

Article extracted from this publication >> June 23, 1995